Donate food
+ household necessities
We really appreciate your help.
Our Food Pantries can only accept donations from the general public that are in line with current health regulations. This means non-perishable items such as flour, sugar, long-life UHT milk and canned goods. We also greatly appreciate longer-lasting fruit and vegetables such as potatoes, carrots, onions, apples and lemons.
Drop off times
Monday to Thursday, 8 am – 12 noon
Drop off location
Addi Road Food Pantry, Hut 1 (southern side of the carpark)
142 Addison Road, Marrickville
We will happily receive your contactless donations on the table outside The Food Pantry.
What to donate
Individuals or community groups e.g. schools
Food
- Fresh vegetables (long lasting e.g. potatoes, onions, carrots)
- Fresh fruit (long lasting e.g. apples, citrus)
- Rice
- Flour
- Cooking oil
- Sugar
- Salt
- UHT milk
- Tinned tomatoes
- Chickpeas
- Lentils
- Dried pulses
- Tinned fruit
- Tinned fish
- Instant noodles
- Spices
- Tea
- Coffee
- Jam
- Honey
- Breakfast cereal
- Biscuits
Household goods
- Toilet paper
- Shampoo/conditioner
- Deodorant
- Razors/shaving foam
- Feminine hygiene products
- Toothbrushes/toothpaste
- Laundry detergent
- Dishwashing liquid
- Tissues
- Nappies (larger sizes)
- Baby wipes
- Household cleaning items – tea towels, dishcloths, sponges etc.,
Business donations
Food businesses, retail outlets, stores and supermarkets can contact our Food Pantry Manager, Damien Moore.
We have a driver and a refrigerated vehicle available on weekdays to do pick ups across the Inner West.
The Food Pantry
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June 11, 2021 / featured, Food Rescue
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June 2, 2021 / featured, Food Rescue
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Two rather grand-looking women are sitting patiently on chairs outside the Addi Road Food Pantry in Marrickville. One has a floral shopping trolley; the other, a few carry bags at her feet overflowing with food. It's impossible not to want to take a photo of them. But they wave away the opportunity. Then they summon the photographer back to explain why they'd rather not have their picture taken.
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May 21, 2021 / featured, Food Rescue
Addi Road Volunteers Acknowledged at Awards
Addison Road Community Organisation is very happy to see our volunteers acknowledged this week at the Inner West Council’s 2021 Amy Large Volunteer Awards.
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May 19, 2021 / featured, Food Rescue
Gang of Youths in Banana Smoothie Rampage!
Emma, Sarah, Pokes, Will and Josh are down here again at Addi Road Food Pantry Marrickville. Except for Sarah, who has come visiting her sister Emma, they all live in a big share-house in Newtown.
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February 11, 2021 / featured, Food Rescue
Faces of Addi Road: Joe
"When I saw the story on TV I saw your van, I saw the writing. And these people I knew getting their food."
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February 3, 2021 / featured, Food Rescue
Faces of Addi Road: Mary and Paul
"Working here ... you see a lot of people giving. It affects me a lot because it really does fill my heart with happiness to be in the middle of it all, helping out with everyone else." – Mary
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February 1, 2021 / featured, Food Rescue
Faces of Addi Road: Estelle
Estelle has been volunteering at Addi Road Food Pantry Marrickville for the last year. “It’s been fun,” she says. “The people are nice. There’s such a variety of people from all steps of life who volunteer here ... "
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January 21, 2021 / featured, Food Rescue
Food Security, Social Justice and Donna Summer
Towards the end of 2020 our Food Pantry Manager, Damien Moore, reckoned he’d been working so hard the time had come to drag him away “in a straitjacket singing that Donna Summer song, ‘Enough is Enough (I can't go on no more!)’. I mean, it has been a pretty full-on year.”
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Donations Act.
The Civil Liability Amendment (Food Donations) Act 2005, known as the Good Samaritan Act, protects food donors by limiting the liability of individuals and businesses that donate food, providing they meet certain food safety conditions: The food is donated in good faith for a charitable or benevolent purpose; the food is safe to eat when it leaves the possession or control of the donor; the donor gives the charity any information it needs to ensure the ongoing safety of the food.